Partition not showing up

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Partition not showing up

Hi,

I was trying to set up Bootcamp, which has been done on my laptop before, but has been giving me issues lately. There would always be problems during the creation of the bootable USB, but that's besides the point. I got it working, and when booting using the USB, I got to the point where it asks you to select the partition you want to install Windows onto. Normally I would just select the one I created and it would work fine. This time, it wave an error saying the partition was in the wrong format (GPT or something) I tried pressing the "Format" button (I believe) and it didn't help. Then, for whatever reason, I pressed the "Delete" button. This deleted the partition and now it says "Unallocated Space - 65 GB". I then tried to press "New" to make a new partition from the unallocated space, but it gives an error saying it was unable to do so. So I boot back into macOS and check Disk Utility. It still says there is the same amount of space available as before on the hard drive (about 130 GB or so), but now it says "Shared by 4 volumes" instead of 5. I try the Terminal command "diskutil list" to see if the partition shows up there, but it doesn't. It lists 4 partitions that add up to 935 GB which is 65 GB less than the 1 TB that's on the drive. How can I add the 65 GB back to the main partition?

Sorry, I realize this was a long question but I wanted to get all the details I know about it out.

MacBook Pro 15", 10.14

Posted on Jan 27, 2019 7:27 PM

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Answer 1

akulakovsky Author

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Jan 29, 2019 7:32 PM in response to Loner T

Hi,

Sorry for the late response. This is the output:

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk0

1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1

2: Apple_APFS Container disk1 935.0 GB disk0s2

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: APFS Container Scheme - +935.0 GB disk1

Physical Store disk0s2

1: APFS Volume Macintosh HD 900.5 GB disk1s1

2: APFS Volume Preboot 42.3 MB disk1s2

3: APFS Volume Recovery 517.0 MB disk1s3

4: APFS Volume VM 3.2 GB disk1s4

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akulakovsky Author

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Jan 30, 2019 1:46 PM in response to Loner T

Thanks Loner T,

I don't know if this solved it (seems like it might've, will check in a sec) but this is the output:

Started APFS operation

Aligning grow delta to 65,345,810,432 bytes and targeting a new physical store size of 1,000,345,825,280 bytes

Determined the maximum size for the targeted physical store of this APFS Container to be 1,000,344,797,184 bytes

Resizing APFS Container designated by APFS Container Reference disk1

The specific APFS Physical Store being resized is disk0s2

Verifying storage system

Using live mode

Performing fsck_apfs -n -x -l -S /dev/disk0s2

Checking the container superblock

Checking the EFI jumpstart record

Checking the space manager

Checking the space manager free queue trees

Checking the object map

Checking volume

Checking the APFS volume superblock

The volume Macintosh HD was formatted by hfs_convert (748.21.6) and last modified by apfs_kext (945.241.4)

Checking the object map

Checking the snapshot metadata tree

Checking the snapshot metadata

Checking the extent ref tree

Checking the fsroot tree

warning: found orphan dstream id object (id 72037010, refcnt 1)

A lot more warnings here that I took out for character count

too many warnings generated; suppressing subsequent ones

Checking volume

Checking the APFS volume superblock

The volume Preboot was formatted by newfs_apfs (748.21.6) and last modified by apfs_kext (945.241.4)

Checking the object map

Checking the snapshot metadata tree

Checking the snapshot metadata

Checking the extent ref tree

Checking the fsroot tree

Checking volume

Checking the APFS volume superblock

The volume Recovery was formatted by newfs_apfs (748.21.6) and last modified by apfs_kext (945.241.4)

Checking the object map

Checking the snapshot metadata tree

Checking the snapshot metadata

Checking the extent ref tree

Checking the fsroot tree

Checking volume

Checking the APFS volume superblock

The volume VM was formatted by newfs_apfs (748.21.6) and last modified by apfs_kext (945.241.4)

Checking the object map

Checking the snapshot metadata tree

Checking the snapshot metadata

Checking the extent ref tree

Checking the fsroot tree

Verifying allocated space

Performing deferred repairs

The volume /dev/disk0s2 appears to be OK

Storage system check exit code is 0

Growing APFS Physical Store disk0s2 from 935,000,014,848 to 1,000,345,825,280 bytes

Modifying partition map

Growing APFS data structures

Finished APFS operation

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akulakovsky Author

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Jan 30, 2019 1:52 PM in response to akulakovsky

Ok, I believe this solved the issue of the partition, but I'm wondering know what I should do this time in order to not get the error in Windows installation saying the drive is in the wrong format (GPT). I still have the USB from last time... Can I just manually create a Windows partition with the right format?

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akulakovsky Author

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Feb 1, 2019 8:42 PM in response to akulakovsky

Oh my gosh - I'm sorry. I've installed Windows using bootcamp many times previously and thought I had the process down, but apparently not. Seems to be working so far after selecting EFI Boot.

Thanks for taking your time to help me!

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Loner T

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Feb 2, 2019 5:55 AM in response to akulakovsky

The Late 2013 and 2014 Macs are 'hybrid' Macs. They support both legacy BIOS and newer UEFI method. The default method is BIOS. You can manually select EFI and you can run the faster EFI boot, but the partitioning is a bit different.

If you have Windows fully functional, can you post the output of

diskutil list

and I can point out the differences.

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Answer 6

Loner T

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Feb 1, 2019 8:28 PM in response to akulakovsky

The Windows installer is not expected to create a partition. Did you manually choose EFI Boot while booting from the USB Installer?

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akulakovsky Author

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Feb 1, 2019 8:08 PM in response to Loner T

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013)

2.3 GHz Intel Core i7
16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M 2048 MB
Intel Iris Pro 1536 MB

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akulakovsky Author

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Feb 1, 2019 8:11 PM in response to akulakovsky

Here's what the error looks like:

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Answer 9

Loner T

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Jan 28, 2019 1:41 AM in response to akulakovsky

Can you post the output of

diskutil list

Based on your description, you must be on Mojave.

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Loner T

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Jan 29, 2019 7:34 PM in response to akulakovsky

Run

diskutil apfs resizeContainer disk1 0g

and post the output.

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Answer 11

Loner T

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Jan 31, 2019 3:33 AM in response to akulakovsky

What is the year/model of your Mac (do not post the serial number)?

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akulakovsky Author

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Feb 1, 2019 8:37 PM in response to Loner T

I chose "Windows" from the boot menu. I made a msdos fat partition in macOs for Windows to go on. Should I be selecting EFI Boot instead of Windows in the boot menu?

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